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#NationalPoetryMonth Round-up (Day 15)

15 Wednesday Apr 2015

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DAY FIFTEEN, Poets. We are half-way through! Today’s round-up of the best in prompts, poems and news from #NaPoWriMo/#NPM15 /#NationalPoetryMonth coming at ya.

Best of the Prompts

Negative Capability Press’ “Poems w/ Colors in the Style of Nelson’s Bluets“
The Language Inside’s “Narrative poems after Naomi Shihab Nye”
Pink Ink Press’ “Tabloid Fever prompt”
O magazine’s “Insomniac prompt after Susan Rich”
Poetic Asides P-A-D “Adjectives as Titles prompt “
NaPoWriMo’s “Poems That Address Themselves”
Apparatus Magazine’s “Through The Opposition’s Eyes prompt”
Miss Rumphius Effect’s Jumping Into Form: Found Poems”
REWIND Being Poetry’s “Fairytale prompt”
Wild Violet’s “M is for Memory prompt”
REWIND Lee Hynes’ “(Visual) Paper Poems prompt”

Poems I Have Loved (Tweeters’ Shares)

Maggie Smith| “Wren Songs”
Ada Limón| “Sharks in the Rivers”
Barbara Crooker| “Peeps”
Ha Kiet Chau| “A Bird’s Eye’s View”
Iain Haley Pollock| “Violets For Your Furs” (w/ commentary)
Jorie Graham| “Coaltrains Crossing the Wyoming Prairie”

Miscellaneous

9 L.A. Poets Giving Latinos a Voice
Punctuation and Poetry at Poets Online
Journals Accepting Summer Submissions at Blogalicious
Paula Meehan: The Poet at 60
Timothy Green’s Take on Submission Fees at Best American Poetry blog
Modigliani and the Russian poet Anna Akhmatova at the Telegraph
Poetry and Grief at Harriet Blog
Poetry as a Way of Thinking: Interview w/ James Author at 32 Poems

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Odd Bits from a Creative Life

01 Monday Dec 2014

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A Tree Born Crooked, Alaska, Cloud Pharmacy, colonized Tlingit women, Common Place, December Book Clubs, Erika Dreifus, Hannah Maynard, John T Biggs, language of the earth, Metzger, noir, Pandamoon, Pen-L Publishing, Popsicle Styx, Practicing Writing, Southern grit lit, Steph Post, Stuart Rojstaczer, surrealist photos, Susan Rich, symbolist painting, Teller poem, The Art of Slow Writing, The Mathematician's Shiva, The Next Best Book Club, Tlingit creation story, Tlingit raven, Walking on Air, Women's Poetry List-Serv, work in progress, Writing for Life

PAINTING

I’ve been working on some symbolist paintings about the Tlingit Raven.  Watch a versions of the Tlingit creation story here.

I’ll be trying out some interesting techniques with my new painting mentor beginning in January.  Very excited to embark in this new direction. Have also found some support for my collage work in a small studio in California that will allow access to more materials. Always nice.

READING

Enjoyed the math-flecked debut The Mathematician’s Shiva by Stuart Rojstaczer over the indexholidays. A tale of family angst in the wake of “the greatest female mathematician in history[‘s]” death and the odd bunch of followers that descend on the family in search of her (possible) solution to the Navier-Stokes problem.  Recommended to me by Erika Dreifus of Practicing Writing and now a pick by BooksAMillion for its December Book Clubs, this is definitely worth a read even by mathphobes.

I also gave a glowing endorsement to John T. Biggs latest Popiscle Styx from PenL.  It’s an impressive sophomore novel that deserves its own category .  I”m going with noir/magical realism/Okie local color/crime for now. Good stocking stuffer!

You might also want to pick up Walking on Air if you are in the mood for some Mississippi small town life.   I’ll have more on this story collection soon and a review of Steph Post’s latest N. Florida noir/ Southern grit lit from Pandamoon with  a full review in  Small Press Book Reviews later this month. PopsicleStyx_Front-200 a-tree-born-crooked-top-book WalkingAir_Front-200

 

 

 

 

POETRY

The Women’s Poetry List-serv has been having an interesting discussion on writing books.  I picked up two of their recommendations: The Art of Slow Writing, which I have yet to read and Metzger’s Writing For Your Life, which has this gorgeous passage:

A poem is a penetration into the essence of something. It begins in a moment, is the thing itself as well as the surrounding space. A poem is in the spaces between the words.

 

This draws me back to the work of poet Susan Rich, whose collection Cloud Pharmacy was gifted to me by The Next Best Book Club (TNBBC) and very enthusiastically discussed on Goodreads recently.

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I fell in love with her suite of poems on the surrealist photographs of Hannah Maynard.  So very fascinated by her way of entering into the work, which she describes in detail in her  “Statement of Poetic Research,”  available with some of the work at Common-Place.

I’m thinking of trying something similar with the “colonialized” images of Tlingit women at the Univ. of Washington, The Alaska Digital Archives and Penn Museum.  This would slide in nicely with the suite of Tlingit legend poems I am already working on.

I’ve made a stab towards it with this Work in Progress piece:

 

Teller

I planted myself
in its heart

I grew inside
the story

marrow of history
backbone of myth

body of taboo, image, desire

what a fucking terrifying solid
being

of communal dream

almost too much oneness for one
mother

nevertheless, die to the fictive selves
so that the “real” voice emerges

 

But I’m not sure exactly where I’m going with the project yet.  I find myself (along with my very patient sponsor/mentor) wishing that I could write much, much faster.  This has been a project of long brewing and constant re-immersion in a culture I am somewhat isolated from both generationally and geographically.

Yet, I am finding it very rewarding.   I have hopes of making it to Alaska if Grandpa Kashka’s health improves.   At 87, he clings tenaciously to the Florida sunshine, but my uncles and cousins are still shucking a living from the rocks.

Thank God we all know how to speak the language of the earth.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Sunday Sentence #21

16 Sunday Nov 2014

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Cloud Pharmacy, David Abrams, In a Village West of Galway, poetry, Sunday Sentence, Susan Rich, women poets, Women writers

 

images.duckduckgo.comMy weekly contribution to David Abrams’ “Sunday Sentence” project in which participants share the best sentence read during the past week “out of context and without commentary.”

Tomorrow she will

reattach herself, line by line-
break to this radiant quarrel,
this pocket-sized, revolutionary pen.

SOURCE: Lines from Susan Rich‘s poem “In a Village West of Galway” from Cloud Pharmacy (White Pine Press)

 

 

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Some Goodreads Giveaways of Interest

09 Sunday Mar 2014

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Alexi Zentner, Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, Christine Byl, Dagmara Dominczyk, Elaine Clayton, Goodreads giveaways, Jessica Poli, K.G. Campbell, Kathleen Flenniken, Kevin Powers, Laura Madeline Wiseman, Malcolm Brooks, Sam Keane, Susan Rich

Just a quick post today to share some Goodreads giveaways that look interesting:

The Tale of the Dueling Neurosurgeons by Sam Kean

The Tale of the Dueling Neurosurgeons: And Other True Stories of Trauma, Madness, Affliction, and Recovery That Reveal the Surprising History of the Human Brain by Sam Keane

Letter Composed During a Lull in the Fighting by Kevin Powers

Letter Composed During a Lull in the Fighting: Poems
by Kevin Powers

Making Marks by Elaine Clayton

Making Marks: Discover the Art of Intuitive Drawing by Elaine Clayton

Stranger Still by Laura Madeline Wiseman

Stranger Still (Poems) by Laura Madeline Wiseman

Oleander Girl by Chitra  Banerjee Divakaruni

Oleander Girl: A Novel by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

The Mermaid and the Shoe by K.G. Campbell

The Mermaid and the Shoe by K.G. Campbell

Dirt Work by Christine Byl

Dirt Work: An Education in the Woods by Christine Byl

The Egg Mistress by Jessica Poli

The Egg Mistress (Poems) by Jessica Poli

Cloud Pharmacy by Susan Rich

Cloud Pharmacy  (Poems) by Susan Rich

Plume by Kathleen Flenniken

Plume: Poems by Kathleen Flenniken

The Lobster Kings by Alexi Zentner

The Lobster Kings by Alexi Zentner

Painted Horses by Malcolm Brooks

Painted Horses by Malcolm Brooks

The Lullaby of Polish Girls by Dagmara Dominczyk

The Lullaby of Polish Girls: A Novel by Dagmara Dominczyk

I’ll try to make this a semi-regular thing.  Good luck and let me know if you are a winner!

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